Xbox One And PlayStation 4 Could Be The End Of Video Game Consoles

Forbes - The world will focus on the next generation of gaming at E3 in Los Angeles this week, as over 35,000 industry professionals gather at the LA Convention Center. Sony and Microsoft kick things off on June 10 with press conferences to tout the new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles, which will launch this fall. But the game industry is evolving in such a way that some analysts believe that there won’t be a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Two.

@ legionsoup I read it they are more less talking about console form , but I still think sony will have a console , that will fit to what ever 8-10 years from now looks like , its always good to have something that not many others have , but a selected few . not many dare enter the console market , unlike tablets and smart tv and phones .

Sony may be able to do something with cloud streaming of games with PS4 given its relationship with certain cloud technology providers. Microsoft already has plans with Xbone to do cloud streaming in a few years when all servers are set up and tested, this will theoretically allow devs to use better hardware to program games, where the Xbone just streams the image. This is currently all theoretical and pie in the sky, so we'll see what really happens in 3 years.

We hear this all the time, "consoles are gonna die out, blah blah blah.". In fact, how many remember the rumor last year that vehemently stated that one of the Big 3 console makers was not going to be releasing a new console? Yet, we have a PS4, Xbone and Wiiu. That had this site in an all out flame war. This article is bullshit, plain and simple.

Actually with what was said from an interview with Adam Sessler,the xbox1 could be the last console that microsoft will make and just upgrade on it with cloud computing.

Or something like that anyways ! :\

Don't know what's up with that but with all that MS is doing lately with their Xbox1 policies and what-not,they might get out of the game sooner than they think,I hope not though .. competition is always welcomed.

There is too much money involved in gaming your talking Billions so i can't see them stopping making consoles , well Sony anyway why should they stop there fighters and I believe this round it's Sony's and it looks really bad for Ms through there greed .

Not to mention: the more advanced mobile tech, the better non-mobile tech will be. I'm sure there's some specific rule, but I believe it's scientifically impossible for the best developed mobile technology to outperform the best developed "static" technology at the same task.

What I mean is this: by the time phones are fully capable of what consoles can now do, the technology available to consoles will be far ahead. Your desktop/laptop will always have the capacity to be more powerful than your smartphone/tablet.

Put simply: if you took the same stuff that's in your phone and filled a Wii-sized case with it, it'd utterly decimate your phone's capabilities.

When it comes to consoles its possible, since a console is out usually uses tech from 2-4 years prior to its release and then has to last 5-6 years on its own, so yes, usually by the time a console hits its out of date by many devices, especially with how fast current mobile tech is.

Next year Tegra 5 comes out and it is a more powerful than the 360/ps3, and every year after that its increasing at a rate of 6-10 times performance capabilities, tegra 3-4 is a 6 times increase in performance alone.

So what will be the point of having a console that is out of date by a tablet or phone a year after its release?

I hope not for Sony, cause if next gen goes all cloud, then Amazon and MS will instantly be the biggest game platforms in the world, With Amazon being the biggest.

All the others would just run services from either of the two.

Quite Frankly, i think next gen will also require offline horsepower, from my point of view, every coming generation will offload more and more to a cloud, but the gen after the coming one wont be ready yet to run everything from a cloud for hundreds of millions of users, but someday it will happen, especially when Quantum computing breaks through.

“Will there be a next generation in about eight years? It won’t be in the shape and form we know today with consoles,” said Peter Warman, CEO of research firm Newzoo. “It could be something you plug into TV and gives you access to all the stuff. You might want an Xbox dongle for exclusive IP that works with other screens. I don’t think it will be a box like we have now.”

Personally I been saying consoles could die in the next 10 years. And if you look back at the Xboxone reveal, the event wasn't about games. So kind it seems video games consoles could have a scenario where video games isnt the primary feature.

Core games will just keep getting expensive on both publisher and consumer perspectives. I also cannot see consumers paying $65, $70, $75 etc for new games. especially in this DRM era console people are about to face.

Here's hoping that's not the case. I mean yeah as good as PC gaming is, game's like Uncharted 2, Halo 3, Journey, Gears Of War and even The Last Of Us wouldn't exist without consoles so I'd like to believe there's a decade or two left in them. Unless they all start this always on crap and don't allow us to trade in our old games. Then I couldn't care less about them.

Well, if Sony turn around and say mandatory game installs, therefore no disc requirement once installed, and you can't share your games like the Xbox...

Goodbye advantage consoles.

You essentially have turned the consoles into PCs.

And with the new architecture being more PC friendly...I don't think anyone can argue that fact. Even the "controller while sat on a couch" argument is moot. You can get wireless PS3 and 360 controllers to work on your PC, and most PC games now have controller support.

The only saving grace for consoles now, is if Sony have very little DRM and allow us to share our game discs around like we can do right now.

I honestly think the play without disc is a cool feature, and I'm sure It'll be on the PS4 (I don't really share my games anyway). But everything else like DRM and 24h checks, with mandatory Kinect for the system to function (combined with PRISM) is a no deal for me.

" According to the NPD Group, the number of American gamers has risen from 205.9 million in 2012 to 209.9 million this year. Many of these new gamers aren’t coming to consoles, but to mobile and free-to-play."

How can you even compare 1983 to now? Also if it was just PC gaming, developers are forced to develop for just that so everyone is happy. No Sony and MS dick suckers. Just one platform where gamers and non-gamers can enjoy.

As long as ISPs are so greedy like they are nowadays, and as long as suitable connections are only available in semi-large cities and huge metropolis communities, the cloud will not become mainstream apart from Facebook-type games.

Anyone who wants to compare tablet gaming and console gaming just needs to play the 'Last of Us'. It will be years before mobile/tablet gaming can produce that kind of experience on the go....this is why every time someone says mobile/tablet gaming is taking over the console space dont understand true gaming. The only time I use my mobile gaming is when I am in the bathroom, waiting for coffee or just passing quick time. For complete focus, enjoyment and immersion, nothing comes close to console gaming.

I don't really know what I'm going to do, I'll wait and c wut Sony does but, for sure my almost 60,000 gamer points "cough" will stay and not transfer to the FEEBOX. And no as long as their r gamers that r willing to buy consoles, consoles will be around for more generations to come. Veni1Vidi1Vici is my gamer tag, if those think I'm a Sony fan boy. Hopefully Microsoft understands not everyone can afford internet i know a few that won't be gaming on a Xboxone just for that reason alone, not including all the other issues.